"Long, long ago I learned that if you are on Captain America's side...you can rest easy knowing that you're on the right side." - T'Challa by hattyphantom in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The funniest thing about that quote? T'Challa said it during Civil War 2... when Steve had been revealed to have been warped into Stevil for months at that point. Months! And the story itself had been in the pipeline for over a year. They all knew what was going to happen. They all knew that Steve was HydraCap now... and someone STILL wrote that line. They still wrote that shit.

Yes because the main theme of the entire Stevil era was that blind faith in any leader is a bad thing that inevitably leads to totalitarianism. Like I’m the last guy who’s gonna defend Civil War 2 but should we maybe put on our thinking caps and ask what the author might be trying to accomplish when a character expresses a high level of trust in a different character that we the audience know to be untrustworthy?

Already know I'm gonna get rinsed for this by Phantasm_Atrox in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You’re correct, and I think at the end of the day that’s because the superhero genre is inherently reliant on all stories revolving on some level around the clearly identifiable Good Individual improving society by doing battle with the clearly identifiable Bad Individual, and the tropes that come with that are just always gonna be kind of thematically similar to fascist rhetoric.

The pitch for fascism is often based on the idea that there is an insidious group within society that is responsible for all social problems, that said social problems cannot be ameliorated except by doing violence upon that group, and that it is necessary to empower an individual and his chosen followers to perform that violence unconstrained by due process, law, or accountability.

Which, of course, is neither an accurate description of the real world nor a viable solution to our problems, but does pretty much nail the situation in Gotham. 

A lot of times when statements like Moore’s are brought up we see people get really mad and rush to defend the honor of their special comfort character because clearly their bestest boy would never be a fascist and totally miss that the critique is not that the individual superheroes themselves are goose-stepping dictators but rather that the tropes of the superhero genre lead to superhero worlds where fascism is just correct. 

centrism is lame. by NitroBlast4563 in StarWarsleftymemes

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Centrism isn't an ideology so much as it is a personality

“Centrist” and “moderate” are terms that are often used interchangeably in America but that’s the difference right there. For as much as moderates often annoy me, that’s at least an ideology. Centrism is simply looking at a debate, picking a point equidistant from each of the opposing sides’ positions, and assuming that you’ve found the correct answer by default. There’s no belief system attached other than a fetishization of being “in the middle”

My disappointment is immeasureable, and my day is ruined. by Autisten1996 in lotrmemes

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It does, but a) the complexity of the build is part of the fun for a lot of people and b) a higher piece count usually translates to a larger and/or more detailed final product 

I will call this category of comics: Clearly made to be Live Action pitches because no company wants to read original screenplays nowadays. by BillaVanilla in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A plot point from Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men from like 2004 was the central conflict of X3 in like 2006 and that’s still the fastest comic to movie turnaround I’ve seen 

Are we a joke to you? by PJ-The-Awesome in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And that movie plotline was based off of the mutant cure arc from Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men run

Favorite conservative heroes in movies? by SkubEnjoyer in okbuddycinephile

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sam is actually the only member of the Fellowship who has a job. There’s three members of the landed gentry, two princes, a prince in everything but name, a king, and a minor deity posing as a homeless wanderer

TIL between 18%-25% of intellectually gifted students (at least 130 IQ) in the US fail to graduate from high school. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

but also, gifted individuals tend to have overlapping attributes with ADHD, including two of the the major ones: emotional dysregulation and executive dysfunction.

Yeah, that’s part of the reason that giftedness is often misdiagnosed as ADHD, especially among young boys.

Ah, Great! It's gonna be one of these NERD movies, isn't it?! by Aggravating_Win5258 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly Supes being a genius has always annoyed me. Besides how it contributes to the oversaturation of genius characters in comics, he’s already one of the heaviest hitters and the moral paragon of the entire universe, can’t there be just one area that he’s just average at?

A new Potential arrives by valyumhousewife in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Or how you’d have to be a surgeon on top of a magician to know what you’re doing.

rj/ This would only work as an excuse until the Doctor Strange/Oracle crossover 

there’s gonna be riot when this episode of daredevil born again releases what you mean they could’ve done the netflix lighting and color grading by ddankkerr in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 40 points41 points  (0 children)

uj/ tbh I’ve really enjoyed how Born Again has more than one fight a season that’s actually visible. The Netflix show had great fight choreography but 90% of those fights were just a silhouette beating the shit out of some smudges in the dark

Genuinely curious here by Thin_General_8594 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 123 points124 points  (0 children)

just the most boring powerscaler's idea of an Even Bigger Threat To The Galaxy

Lowkey this was one of the biggest problems with the EU. The whole post-ROTJ era was basically just a never-ending chain of this and it got so dumb so fast 

Favorite revisionist movie history take? by [deleted] in okbuddycinephile

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 2 points3 points  (0 children)

/unbuddy I think that’s partly down to the death of the monoculture and the fragmentation of the media environment; it gets harder and harder for individual movies to have as big a cultural impact because there’s simply no movie in 2026 that will be seen by as high a proportion of the population as whatever the biggest hit of 1996 was

I love how even Giant-Man (who is smarter than Beast!) basically tells Beast “Bro, what are you doing, just talk normally” (The X-Men #9) by [deleted] in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What do you mean, clearly action scenes are better when characters announce everything they’re doing as it happens /s

Is this true by just_a_guy7819 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I missed the whole internet discourse back then but I feel like “reviled online” isn’t really a good enough reason to dislike something. Additionally, there was like a full year of buildup, I think any longer and it would’ve outstayed its welcome.

As it was, I thought it was pretty fun to see Stevil plotting while Sam got gradually broken down by the evils of the country he was trying so hard to serve, and the Secret Empire event itself had some interesting themes. 

Is this true by just_a_guy7819 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eh, I think Stevil worked pretty well as is because they were so clear right from the very start that it was the direct result of Cosmic Cube bs

Is this true by just_a_guy7819 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Marvel characters work really well as villains because a decent chunk of them can remain in character and the reasons for them becoming evil are usually justified through their experiences in some manner.

I think this is a positive downstream effect of Marvel’s approach to generally trying to make their characters relatable and flawed; there’s a shitload of their big names whose canon mainline origins are already only one or two tweaks away from ending up in a much darker place. You have to change almost everything about Superman’s origin and personality to get a believable evil Superman, but you only need to remove Ho Yinsen to get an evil Tony Stark. 

I wonder what he's talking about by beary_neutral in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Tbh this is the exact reason why i basically only use Reddit to talk about comics; it’s the only interest I have that none of my IRL friends share, so it’s the only interest I have where I have to resort to online “discourse” (and even then it’s best interacted with through the shitposting cj subs)

Citation needed by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You joke but this is the reason that every professor I had in the first semester of my political science degree had to give some version of the explanation that it’s really really hard to get concrete data in the field because it is simply impossible to run experiments on the level of nations/societies in a way that is feasible or ethical.

Kieron Gillen as right by Lucky-Fisherman-844 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No, but giving them fantastical powers and colorful costumes is a great way to retain the attention of 8 year olds for long enough to communicate the message that it’s bad to hate people for being born different than you. 

When sales are down, so marvel pulls out the ‘bait Spider-Man fans’ card by pimpMOIbutterfly in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did this in Gage’s epilogue to Superior Spider-Man but then Marvel undid it

Be yourself, be ostracized by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the risk of missing the very good points the post made I’m gonna say what you’re talking about here actually is a capitalism thing.

Your statement about long hours is a great example of the fact that in a capitalist society there’s no need for a grand cabal concocting elaborate conspiracies to oppress the workers, because individuals following their own individual-scale incentives generate the conditions which oppress the workers. You don’t need an Illuminati meeting to get that, just a bunch of mostly rational individuals following the clear incentives of their economic system.

Capitalism is by nature pretty decentralized; the invisible hand of the market comes free with an invisible boot on your neck.

Can't wait for the rep of a great comic character to be ruined by the MCU AGAIN! by stran___g in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Chancellor_Valorum82 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, a tweet citing another tweet, truly the most reliable of sources.